How to Recover Data from Unbootable Hard Drive

If your system has got an unbootable hard drive, then you need to take some added measures to start it. A malware attack, corrupt booting files, conflict in Windows, crashed RAM, etc. could be a few reasons for having a problem like this. You can’t boot your system, then you won’t be able to access your stored content as well. Under these circumstances, you need to walk an extra mile to recover data from unbootable hard drive. To help you do the same, we have come up with this post. Read on and learn how to recover data from unbootable hard drive.

Part 1: Donwload Recoverit with Bootable Drive

Since you can’t boot your system the same old way, you need to create a bootable media. You can access to Windows Preinstallation Environment you can retrieve your data back. With Recoverit to create a bootable media to recover data from unbootable hard drive, it compatible with every leading version of Windows (including Windows 10).

Part 2: How to Recover Data from Unbootable Hard Drive

1. How to create a bootable media

Since your system can’t boot from its native hard drive, you need to use a bootable disk to perform the recovery operations. Donwload and install Recoverit on a workable computer and connect a blank USB drive or CD/DVD to it. Follow the next simple steps to create bootable drive.

Launch Recoverit, click "System Crash Recovery" from the menu.

On the next window, you will require to create a bootable media to recover data from unbootable hard drive. Simply select which bootable drive you would like to create- USB BOOTABLE DRIVE OR CD/DVD bootable drive, then click on the "Create" button.

Click on the "Format Now" button on the next, wait for a while as Recoverit will completed create a bootable media

Note:Do not eject USB drive or CD/DVD drive during the process of creating bootable media.

After created USB bootable drive, you will need to set your computer BIOS and go to start retrieve your data back. Restart your crashed computer and entry the BIOS with the BIOS function keys. The most common keys are F2, F10, F12 or Delete. You can check out this page to learn how to set computer to boot from USB drive.

2. Recover data using the bootable media

Step 1 Restart your computer, with the bootable drive that created by Recoverit you can start to recover lost data from crashed hard drive by choosing the recovery mode "Deleted Files Recovery".

Step 3 A quick scan will be automatically launched. If you could not find out the files you need, you can choose "All-Around Recovery" to have a deeper search.

Step 4 After scan the unbootable hard drive, you can preview the recovered data and click "Recover" button to save.

Recoverit provides a fast and reliable way to recover data from unbootable hard drive. The application can easily be used to create a bootable media, which can help you save the day and retrieve your content from a malfunctioning system.